Kevin Costner records 'Hatfields & McCoys'-themed concept album

Kevin Costner has spoken about the music he has created for his new miniseries Hatfields & McCoys.

The actor stars in the History Channel programme about two feuding families from 1882 to 1888.

"[My band Modern West] wrote the theme song for the movie and then we did a concept album that spoke to the whole time of Appalachia called Famous for Killing Each Other, and that will come out about a week before the movie comes out. So if you like music, I think you'll really like it," Costner told New York Magazine.

He added: "It's not all bluegrass music; it's all themed around the Hatfields and the McCoys. Just because I was doing the movie, I started to really absorb the violence, and the whole record is about the concept of the [families]."